Late stage empire vibes.

• Self-own your own IT infrastructure by pushing out an update on your overly bloated domestic security software peddled by your military industrial complex. Wasn't even an attack from a major cyber rival: you fucked this up all on your own.
• Your space agency cancels their only moon robot because their contractors bled them dry. Meanwhile your main geopolitical rivals are building entire military bases on the moon.
• You have astronauts stranded on a space station because Boeing, your only remaining domestic aerospace company, was taken over by MBAs and can't make airplanes OR space shuttles without endangering your own citizens.
• Your two major political parties are so dysfunctional that one got through a whole primary cycle with a decrepit old man before realizing he was actually too senile for the job and now your political elites are forced to play their veto uno reverse card in the media. And the other party just had their candidate survive a homegrown assassination attempt by a slight neck twitch, only to turn around and start endorsing a public plan to dismantle your own government with their VP pick.

And ALL of this in the past week, lmao.

Linux gang stays winning

Nooo haha don't monopolize key sectors of your economy making it easier to hijack the whole thing and takeover after the revolution haha nooo

(This goes both ways, I wouldn't like this happening to China)

Please be related to them pushing out some AI bullshit that would be so fucking funny

Imagine using windows for mission critical applications

The wallstreetbets post having been created a few hours before the shortage is wild

Crowdstrike got their overly valued IPO off planting Russian Bear signatures in the DNC servers.

Infamously being handed the DNC servers after the party denied the FBI access to investigate.

They admit there was no evidence of Russians after the fact

But it was critical to plant in the news and aided the Empire to stroke up a new Red Scare to justify sanctions.

Crowdstrike was founded by a group of s connected to the Atlantic Council and

Cybersecurity Firm That Attributed DNC Hacks to Russia May Have Fabricated Russia Hacking in Ukraine

The firm’s CTO and co-founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank with openly anti-Russian sentiments that is funded by Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk, who also happened to donate at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation."

They rode this fake claim to fame on an IPO that valued the company at $7 billion

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. shares soared nearly 100% at times in their trading debut Wednesday, and the chief executive compared the cybersecurity company to cloud-software giants like Salesforce.com Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. while watching the stock’s huge first-day pop....CrowdStrike CRWD  priced an initial public offering Tuesday evening at $34, higher than the expected range. CrowdStrike sold at least 18 million shares at that price to raise more than $610 million at an initial valuation of about $6.7 billion. Underwriters — led by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch and Barclays — had access to another 2.7 million shares, which could push the total raised to more than $700 million.

Shares gained as much as 97% in Wednesday’s session, though they pulled back to trade lower than the opening price of $63.50.

So not sorry for a bit a schadenfreude that this happens the night is formally nominated.

My other half watched it and said the family was there.....but Barron was missing

The more I read about it the worse it becomes holy shit. The economic hit would be wild.

Lmao, my company uses that. Let see if I'm going to be able to work today.

Bad news: looks like it was fixed 😕

On a scale of 10 (10 being the 2008 crash) how big is this?

Enlightenment me oh computor mages

Lol this is not the "something finally happened" that I hoped to wake up to, but I'll take it.

Southwest showing the world how it's done:

stays winning

how long is this gonna last before it's fixed and back to normal?

Death to America

hey guys just started my job at crowdstrike and pushed a little update, gonna relax the rest of the day

Call me crazy, but if I were to look back at the history of cybersecurity in, oh I dunno, 20 years? And I read about the “Crowdstrike Outage” long after this company is gone, I’m immediately gonna assume “Crowdstrike” is the name of a piece of malware

Richard Stallman gets proven right once again. The West will rather collapse than ever consider a sustainable software model.

I'm even more GNUpilled right now.

here for the chaos

lmao the only reason I'm able to get work done is because I'm working from home today. My entire school is SOL otherwise.

Do they not even do an incremental update? They just pushed it out to all customers at once?

As someone who worked this last night:

World got ClownStriked.